Sugar-serving device



May ls, 1928. 1,669,712

M. E. KENNEY SUGAR ,SERVING DEVICE Filed Feb. 21. 1927 7 BY g' flzd z, ATTORNEY Patented May 15, 1928.

UNITED STAT s; PATENT OFFICE.

MINOR E. KENNEY, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF 'ONE-TWELFTH TO W. H. CABSTENS, 1 SEATTLE,.WASHINGTON.

SUGAR-SERVIN DEVICE.

,Application med February 21, 1927. Ser ia1 n'o."16a,877.

This invention relates to improvements in sugar serving devices and more particularly to containers for serving granulated sugar it being the principal objectof the invention to provide a container for table use and which includes a smallscoop or spoon by means of which measured quantities .of sugar may be withdrawn without requiring that the device be'opened.

It is also an object to rovide a device as above stated which confines the sugar in a sanitary manner, which will not permit the falling into or entrance of any foreign matter or the application of anything for the removal of the sugar except the scoop provided therefor.

Another object resides in the provision of a device as above stated embodying a metallic base portion into which a glass container for the sugar may be threaded; the container being in the form of a closed dome that permits the character and amount of its con tents to be readily observed without necessitating the removal of any cover or closure member therefrom.

Other objects of the invention reside in the various details of construction and combination of parts as will hereinafter be described and specifically pointed out in the claims terminating this specification.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, I have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustratedin the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a front View of a. sugar container of the character embodied by this invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Figure 3 is a top view of the device. Figure 4 is a perspective View of the sugar serving scoop or spoon.

.Referring more in detail views of the drawings 1 designates the circular base portion of the container, which may be either of cast or pressed metal and which provides a mounting and also serves as a closure member for the lower end ofthe sugar container 2; the latter preferably being in the form of a glass dome that is closed at its upper end and, at its lower end, is threaded, as at 3, into the upper end of a cylindrical housing to the several portion 4 that is mounted on the base 1, and which serves, with the glass portion, as the sugar container.

In one side of the housing 41 is an 0 ening 5 and projecting therethrough and into the container is a scoop 6 of tubular form fitted, at its outer end, with a closing piece 7 to which a projecting, flat handle 8 is secured; the piece 7 being of greater diameter than the tube so as to serve as a stop whereby the inward movement of the scoop through the opening 5 will be limited.

Near its inner end the tube is closed off by a. partition wall 9 and between this wall and the inner end of the tube; the latter is formed with an upwardly opening spoon pocket 10 which is designed to hold a teaspoonful of sugar. The opening 5 is surrounded by a slightly projecting boss 11 which gives additional bearing'surface to the opening and the latter is directed downwardly at a slight degree so that when the scoop is projected into the container its inner end will be disposed close to the base 1 at a point opposite the opening. Another feature of the construction is the provision of a shallow catch basin 12 beneath the opening 5 which is formed as an integral extension of the base plate and which serves the purpose of catching any sugar that may fall from the opening, or scoop, when the latter is removed.

Devices of this character may be made in various sizes and of various materials; it being possible to make them entirely of glass or entirely of metal, or of a combinationof the two, as shown. It is further apparent that the design of the top and of the base may be varied as desired to suit the purpose or particular place in which the device is to be used.

It is further apparent that the shape of the scoop and its degree of inclination may I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A device of the character described comprising a container having a lateral opening near the base thereof and a scoop applicable to and removable from the container through said opening in a downwardly inclined position for the removal of material from the container and serving normally as a closure for the opening.

2. A sugar serving device of the character described comprising a base plate with a circular main portion and a lateral extension integral therewith forming a catch basin, a cylindrical housing piece fixed vertically upon and concentric with the main base portion, a container threaded at its lower end into the upper end of said housing piece and closed at its upper end; said housin piece having a lateral opening in the will thereof alined directly above said catch basin and formed in a downwardly inclined direction, and a scoo) of tubular form applicable to the container through said opening and provided at its inner end with an upwardly opening pocket for containing a i'neasured quantity of sugar and having a handle piece at. its outer end which serves also to limit the inward travel of the scoop.

Signed at Seattle, \Vashingtou, this 14th day of February, 1927.

MYRON E. KENNEY. 

